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Lial - Trigonometry 12th Edition
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Capitolo 1, Problema 4

CONCEPT PREVIEW Fill in the blank(s) to correctly complete each sentence. The distance on a number line from a number to 0 is the _________ of the number.

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Understand that the problem is asking for a term related to the distance of a number from zero on a number line.
Recall that the distance from zero to any number on the number line is always a non-negative value.
This concept is known as the 'absolute value' of the number, which measures how far the number is from zero regardless of direction.
The absolute value of a number \(x\) is denoted as \(|x|\) and is defined as \(|x| = x\) if \(x \geq 0\), and \(|x| = -x\) if \(x < 0\).
Therefore, the correct term to fill in the blank is 'absolute value'.

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